The National Committee for the Centennial of the Republic commissioned this ambitious publication in celebration of Panama’s century of independence. Bringing together the work of 38 authors in 90 chapters, its scope stretches from pre-Hispanic times to the present. The dean of Panamanian historians, Alfredo Castillero Calvo of the University of Panama, organized and edited the work. The Historia general seeks to document the emergence of the Panamanian nationality, first during its early germination as a unique subculture at the crossroads of Spain’s American empire, then as it sought identity in the quest for autonomy within the Colombian nation, and finally as it struggled under the suffocating tutelage of the United States to realize genuine independence. The three volumes are divided into five tomes: the first volume, addressing the colonial period, comes in two parts; the second, treating the nineteenth century, in just one; and the third, covering the twentieth,...
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